Barcelona: Force India on Monday unveiled its new car — for the 2018 season, hours ahead of first testing. The car has eye-catching and dynamic livery, incorporating last year’s pink, magenta and silver. There is now more white on the nose-cone, engine cover and rear wing and around the cockpit. Team’s development driver Nikita Mazepin will run the car first in Monday’s testing while drivers Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon will take turns to test the new car later.
Chief Operating Officer, Otmar Szafnauer, said: We worked very closely with BWT to deliver an even stronger identity for the car this year and everybody is really happy with the result. The new shade of pink is very striking and really pops out.
Technical Director Andrew Green said: The DNA of the car is very much that of last years car. We took the decision, quite a while ago, that the launch specification of the 2018 car would be based around our understanding of the 2017 car, but with all new structures required by the regulations in place.” “It is a starting point, a good reference from which to introduce changes quite quickly; it gives our aerodynamics department more time to develop a car for the first race in Australia, rather than having to release parts early for testing,” he added.
